ghost of miles

The Kim Gordon memoir is excellent. It begins with Sonic Youth's final concert, then moves into a rather Joan Didion-esque rendering of her adolescence in southern California late 1960s/early 1970s, and then jumps to NYC at the beginning of the 1980s. She crossed paths with a lot of people early on who went on to become "notable" in one way or another, which is also interesting. BTW, I highly recommend the deluxe edition of Daydream Nation. The second disc includes some covers from the Daydream Nation period (an awesome one of the Beatles' "Within You Without You"--I bought the various-artists Sg. Pepper Knew Our Fathers tribute in 1988 just to get this track) and live versions of all the DN songs from 1988-89 concerts. Good booklet, too.

Recently reading Kim Gordon's memoir Girl In A Band sent me back to some of the Sonic Youth records that I lived with in the late 1980s and early 90s, and they still hold up really well, especially Daydream Nation (which marks its 30th anniversary this Thursday). God, they were an amazing band. I really need to check out some of the later records... sort of drifted away from them after Dirty (not because I disliked that record--I like it better than many other SY fans do, I think--but just because I'd been listening to them so intensively for 6-7 years at that point and felt a bit burned out). Daydream Nation, though, man, that's practically a Sgt Pepper of American indie rock for me, and it capped an incredible run of albums (Bad Moon Rising 1985, Evol 1986, Sister 1987).

I think I was merely accepted as a little bundle o' love , though my poll ratings fluctuated wildly during my adolescent years.

I was born that day! (Dec 9, 1965) Arrived in the morning, doubt my mom was tuned into CBS that evening, though.

Yep, and much of the concert has been released on CD—but D and C in Blue is not included: Duke Ellington and Friends: the First Connecticut Jazz Festival I came across mention of this particular post-Newport Gonsalves performance yesterday in Eddie Lambert’s invaluable book on Ellington. Not sure yet, but I may have turned up a digital download of this track for purchase on Amazon; only other place I’ve found it so far has been the YouTube link above.

Three weeks after Newport ‘56, Gonsalves takes 37 choruses on D & C in Blue:

Well, the rhythm section alone is enough to pull me on board for this one.

Going to be introducing some Ellington pieces at a concert tomorrow night in Bloomington, including selections from Afro-Bossa, so revisiting this set tonight:

Boston's much-maligned pen has actually done a good job tonight, following another not-so-great outing from David Price--though Cora did have to lean on a starter again (Porcello this time) to pitch the 8th. Kimbrel will be taking at least a two-run lead into the 9th; Sox have a good chance at going to Houston with the series tied.

Night-and-day difference watching the Astros play the Red Sox as opposed to the Yankees. Plate discipline, for starters. Unfortunately, the NY Post has reported that Boone's entire coaching staff is coming back for 2019, which doesn't leave me feeling optimistic about the team changing its approach much.

Brewers just drew first blood in a pitching duel.

Hey Joe, last update I received was in mid-June, saying that all of the tracks for the set had been successfully licensed. Nothing since then--it's supposed to be coming out at the end of this year, I believe.

... just to keep him from pitching against us anymore! I do wonder what NY will do re the shortstop situation. Gleyber Torres is actually a natural shortstop, so they could move him over there for the first half of the season, and maybe resign Walker to play second base. Defensively speaking, Machado is supposedly much better as a third baseman than a shortstop, but that would entail (a) Machado being willing to play third (he's said he wants to play ss) and (b) moving Andujar elsewhere--first base, maybe? Left field? I dunno. Anyways... here's a preview of Houston vs Boston, and one of Milwaukee vs Los Angeles. Also, if this report is true, Kris Bryant is an idiot, IMO. Maybe the landscape will be different in 2022 when he hits free agency, but he'll still be 30 years old by then, which is becoming a fatal milestone, contractually speaking, in modern-day baseball.

Whoa! I had not seen that news... wouldn't be surprised if that at least includes the likelihood of NY going after Machado. The priority still needs to be pitching, though--pursuing most likely Corbin and perhaps even Yankee-turned-Ray-turned-Red-Soxer Eovaldi. Looks like Price is slotted to start Game 2 at home against Houston? As you pointed out, Dan, his stats line up much better against them than NY. Easy to forget in all of the "can't-beat-the-yankees" hubbub that he was one of the best starting pitchers in the American League for the second half of 2018.

Don't forget this Perry, who fronted Spitter for many years:

Anybody see a track listing for this set yet? I surely hope Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” makes the cut:

Wow--so sorry to hear that. The only upside of the Yankees losing for me is that I've got so much work on my plate for the next several weeks that not being as intensely engaged with the playoffs will be somewhat of a blessing. But Houston-Boston promises to be a great match-up, and I'll be following it as much as possible--just unfortunate that Joe West will have such a prominent place at the party.

Yeah, I just ran into Jason on the street today actually (my friend who owns/runs Landlocked) and we were talking about how there's still a strong demand for CDs in Japan especially, and in Germany as well. They shouldn't have any trouble selling a run of 500-1000. Jason thought it was really unwise of them last year to take the no-CD stance on a release like this, but maybe they were just trying to push people like me into buying the vinyl. I like that Resonance usually doesn't wait very long to make CD versions available after they put out vinyl for Record Store Day releases.

Welp, turns out Tompkins Square has decided to reissue this on CD after all (they told our local record-store owner last year that they wouldn't be releasing it in CD format): Sonny Clark: The 1960 Time Sessions

We re-aired Late Autumn: Stan Getz 1987-91 last week on Night Lights, and it remains archived for online listening.

Love love love that set. Bought it in 1999 not long after it came out and still pull it out every several years for a complete tour.

I'm hoping to get around to that Powell series at some point--possibly not until I retire, though, which is still a good 15-17 years off. One of these days I want to re-read Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME as well, which I plowed through when I was in my 20s. It would be interesting to give it another go from the perspective of decades added.